Until 2018, women biology faculty members in the U.S. were less likely than their male colleagues to be featured on Wikipedia. By 2024, the trend had reversed; women biology professors at top R1 universities are now 25 percent more likely to have a biography on the platform than male biologists in academia.
Compared to the prior year, women's representation declined among lead actors and directors of English-language streaming films released in 2025, while their share of streaming film writers remained unchanged.
Between 2019 and 2025, male-owned businesses have consistently adopted AI at a higher rate than women-owned businesses. Among different generations, Millennial and Gen Z owners are the most likely to use AI; however, these age groups also have the largest gender gaps in AI adoption.
According to a review of prior research on climate change, men emit more greenhouse gases than women due to their greater consumption in areas like travel, transportation, tourism, and meat eating. Men are also less likely to express concern with climate change.
Younger women are the more likely to believe they have been held back by their gender, with 50 percent of Gen Z women saying they have faced personal or professional hardship simply because they were a woman.
According to a recent poll from the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago, over half of all adults believe men have more opportunities than women for competitive wages and job advancement. Most adults perceive no gender gap when it comes to securing flexible work schedules and accessing education.
Overall, mothers are 15 percent less likely than fathers to be employed at universities. At the tenured level, men's employment is unaffected by parenthood, while women experience a drop of 23 percent in their rate of tenured employment.
Women physicians in the United States earn roughly 78 cents per every one dollar earned in total compensation and 80 cents per every dollar earned in base salary by their male peers. Over a 30-year career, a woman physician can expect to earn some $3.3 million less in total compensation compared to a male colleague.
In countries with higher scores on the 2017 Human Development Index, women represent a larger share of the workforce in care-economy jobs, such as teachers, nurses, or social workers.
On an hourly basis, women overall were paid 18.6 percent less, on average, than men in 2025. This is a slight increase from 2024. Women make less money than men at every education level, and the gap widens as education level increases.
The National Institutes of Health's series of grant cancellations in 2025 disproportionately impacted women scientists compared to their male peers. Although women lost less money overall, they had more active resources unspent at the time of cancellation, leading to a great portion of unrealized scientific output, particularly among women in early-career positions.
